China’s disabled children are sold into slavery as beggars
Saturday, July 21st, 2007As Beijing prepares for the Olympics, racketeers live well off their street army of exploited teenagers.Read the full story
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As Beijing prepares for the Olympics, racketeers live well off their street army of exploited teenagers.Read the full story
Think Progress » Who Is John D. Bates?
Friday, July 20th, 2007Yesterday, federal district Judge John D. Bates “dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband [Joe Wilson] against Vice President Cheney and other top officials over the Bush administration’s” retaliatory leak of Plame’s identity. Read the full story
Old-line Republican warns ’something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state
Friday, July 20th, 2007Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.Read the full story
State to allow patients to grow own pot
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes. It’s a decision that has made a lot of state law enforcement officials upset.Read the ...
Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t Listening
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Readers of National Review, "the bible of american Conservatism" go on a regular cruise with a literal whose who of conservatives like Kenneth Star and John O'Sullivan. A reporter tags along with disturbing results. The civilised countries should invade all the oil-owning places in the Middle East and run them ...
‘DATELINE’ SUED IN SEX-STING SUICIDE | By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN | TV Shows | TV Ratings | Television Show
Thursday, July 19th, 2007July 18, 2007 -- THE sister of a veteran Texas prosecutor who blew his brains out as he was about to be busted in an underage-sex sting set up by "Dateline" is slapping NBC with a $100 million suit. Louis "Bill" Conradt grabbed a gun and shot himself as he spotted ...
Bush administration releases report on terror threat: A new pretext for militarism and repression
Thursday, July 19th, 2007A new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a report that synthesizes the findings of Washington’s 16 separate spy agencies, warns that the US faces a “heightened threat environment” for terrorist attacks. The Bush administration’s release of the report strongly suggests that the US government is seeking to justify new military interventions ...
Arafat died of AIDS, confirms Palestinian leader
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Arafat died of AIDS, confirms Palestinian leader: "A leading Palestinian “resistance” figure has confirmed what many suspected all along: Yasser Arafat died of AIDS.Read the full story
Execution of Ivon Ray Stanley
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007In 2001, radio producer Dave Isay released "The Execution Tapes," 19 recordings of electrocutions carried out by the state of Georgia since 1984. They remain the only recordings of executions in the United States. They were recorded internally by the Georgia Department of Corrections as a secret official record of ...
O’Reilly Admits He Lied
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007When Bill O’Reilly of Fox News and "no spin zone" fame featured a report on "gay gangs," the umbrage GLBT people took was business as usual except for one thing: the report crossed a pro-firearms GLBT group called The Pink Pistols.Read the full story